I've been thinking the same thing for a couple of days. If this story had come out of Thailand, it would have been my first guess. But I just never associated sex slavery with the Caribbean.
I've been thinking about it too but more on the cases in the States. Remembering the abductions where the victim is recovered it seems the young girl from Salt Lake City was a prisoner of just the kidnapper.
Remember the young boy who spent years with his abuser and had the courage to go to the police when he (abuser) brought another really little kid "home".
It's horrible enough to hear about those, but even more to think that some of the others who are missing may be forced to be prostitutes.
These cryptic messages appeared on the USENET, one right after the disappearance, the other a few months later.
"Beware of the Janki Trader who keeps networks of old alive. Whereever their countrymen have settled their offspring survive. In the Indies East and West, they trade sugar and spice, and precious gems more pleasing and nice."
(Janki is the original form of "Yankee", a perjorative like "Yokel" referring to Dutch colonists).
and dating from the 2nd week of June, 2005:
The Straight Road of Akallabeth
"Bandar Seri, Brunei, Aruba, Alabama, beneath the Straight Path that reaches out where flesh unaided cannot endure, wrapping around coming back in every direction whence it comes. So, the Straight Path, too, wraps around, from all places and all times leading to the same point in space and time, from which the Eye of Creation looks out into the Future, within the direct line of sight of everything everywhere, obscured only by the fog of the CMB. Nothing is hidden from It -- nor from that which see what It sees."
The first message eventually was joined into a larger compilation which also included a message with the "Janki trader" reference in it that made reference to the unusual, recently emerged, situation regarding the 3:1 female:male ratio amongst 20-somethings in the Northern Marianas.
Interestingly, Brunei and parts of Borneo were formerly under the administration of the American Trading Company, and all sits in the midsts of the East Indies segment of the former Dutch empire.